From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 19:38:35 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: US govt claims to want to combat "computer terrorism"
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	Somehow, I suspect that their efforts will A: not include any non-GAKed
cryptography involvement, and probably minimal GAKed cryptography - less chance
of someone using superencryption in a hard-to-detect fashion. I also suspect
that they'll be cutting down on anonymnity, or at least trying to. Notice the
link to an almost completely unrelated incident, namely the Oklahoma City
bombing.
	-Allen

>   _ Wednesday July 17 1:28 PM EDT _
   
>U.S. urges &quot;Manhattan Project&quot; for cyber security

>   WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration is urged U.S. industry to join
>   in a sweeping new drive to protect computer networks and other modern
>   lifelines from attack by terrorists and others.
   
[... Jamie Gorelick, or whatever her name is (yes, the pro-GAKing one), said:]

>   &quot;What we need, then, is the equivalent of the 'Manhattan Project'
>   for infrastructure protection, a cooperative venture between the
>   government and private sector to put our best minds together to come
>   up with workable solutions to one of our most difficult
>   challenges,&quot; she told the Governmental Affairs permanent
>   subcommittee on investigations.
   
>   President Clinton set the stage for such a blitz Monday with an
>   executive order setting up a blue-ribbon panel that will recommend
>   measures to safeguard such lifelines as telecommunications, power
>   systems, water supply, and gas and oil storage and transportation. The
>   panel is to be chaired by a presidential appointee drawn from the
>   private sector and will include representatives from government and
>   industry.

[...]
   
>   The administration began to focus on the issue after the April 19,
>   1995, bombing that killed 168 people in an Oklahoma City federal
>   office building.
   
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